This Hot Wheels Custom ’68 Camaro started its life as an Ultra Hots car, just like the one in the picture. The guys at Hot Wheels Mexico Club destroyed several of these to use their wheels on their 6th anniversary Club Cars, so I got ahold of one of the “corpses” in a visit to Brujo’s house, a Honorary Member of Custom Diecast México but also an admin of the club, who happened to have the remains of the Camaros at his house.

The original paint job was cool so I left it alone and concentrated on just detailing it. Since there are no pictures of the process because this was a really simple custom, I’ll walk you trough the work that was done on it on the pictures of the resulting car, which looks like this.

The most obvious change are the wheels. I used some original Blackwalls I had lying around in my wheel box. The enormous rear tires go well with the 70s street-machine style of the car, but I had to trim down the wheelwells a bit for them to roll freely. Unfortunately, the Dremel slipped in the process and I damaged the paint a bit, so I covered up the damage as best as I could with Tamiya orange paint.

Out back, the tail-light panel was painted flat black, then the tail-lights were stripped of the black and detailed with Tamiya’s Clear Red. The parts of the panel that remained in the body were also painted flat black to complete the look.

The piece bellow the bumper, which is part of the chassis and thus has a bare metal finish, was painted with Tamiya orange as if it was part of the body, like it would be in a real Camaro. The front chin spoiler was painted flat black.

And like that, a hopeless donor came back to life, and looking way more agressive than in its stock form. The Blackwall wheels fit really well in this updated version of the classic ’68 Camaro casting, giving it a street freak-ish look, but also that of an old Hot Wheels, because they don’t look out of place in here… I can even imagine this car being sold back in the 80s just as it looks now.